Anyone done 1-60 non-raf recently?

[Fat Tire]

Just curious if anyone has done non raf recently and could let me/us in on how their leveling went. I am trying to decide if I want to raf just for 1 team. Not looking to lvl a bunch of classes up just the 1 and wondering how painful or not it might be. Questing or even boosting?

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I did 4 pallies here recently without RAF and just finished hitting 80 about 2 weeks ago. It wasn't as sexy as RAF XP but it wasn't stupidly slow to me. As a rough idea of how long it took, mine are sitting at 15-16 days /played and they've done about a week's worth of dailies and the odd northrend dungeon. They also sat /afk in cities quite a bit when I went to get dinner, etc., so figure 15% of that is idle. Also, I spent a lot of time doing quest chains to open up BC instances for the Outland Dungeonmaster achievement, so that's a fair bit. By no means was I trying to blow through as fast as possible.

Even without RAF, I completely skipped STV, Badlands, Searing Gorge/Blackrock/etc., UnGoro, Arathi Highlands. I had an 80 pally to blow up instances with as my 5th, so I actually did Strat/scholo, DM, ST, Mara and ZF. I did quests (including drops) in Hellfire(all), Nagrand(31), Zangarmarsh(53), Blade's Edge(67), Netherstorm(53), Shadowmoon(61) and went to Northrend at 70 I think. Also did all the Outland instances for the TK key and Outland Dungeonmaster achievement. As for old world, I can't remember which ones I did but I think I went from Felwood to WPL at 54ish and did that and EPL (and a few of the easy ones in Winterspring) to finish up to 58.

[Fat Tire]

great stuff Ughmahedhurtz


thanks!

[Multibocks]

15 days!


/hurl

/slitwrists

edit: to answer the question. I tried doing it recently and I made it to all of level 10 before I went out and bought 4 more accounts. It's that painful.

[DrChaos]

lol. +1 for multibocks... thats said for truth!

[Multibocks]

lol DrChaos love your sig.

[DrChaos]

lol DrChaos love your sig.

lol. its pretty funny

[Smoooth]

You can still boost to 60 without raf in about 30 hours or even less if you take your time and get some rest.

[MarkHR]

1-80 (dinged yesterday) without raf

5 shaman group levelled with questing and no collection quests, until northrend.

The major problem I ran into 1-60 was running out of non-collection quests (resorted to grinding which really sucks with the group xp penalty) and also having to do 2 quests per zone across 4 or 5 zones at times (travel time was ridiculous).

If I do it again
- accept all collection quests, switch to group loot and only do the ones that give either 100% drop rates or one drop for all. Abandon any other collection quests as a waste of time.
- stay in each area (classic, tbc) until ALL possible non-collection quests have been done so you don't run out of quests and have to grind
- do not go to northrend until at least lvl70 (preferably higher) so, if possible, you can avoid some of the collection quest chains in borean tundra/howling fjord/dragonblight
- have a trinity/tank+dps group so instance runs are an option

It's definitely do-able but without either a tank or booster for instance runs it can seem never ending.

[Nolife]

I have lvl ~64 team which i have mostly boosted through instances. Just checked /played on my hunter and it's 3 days, 9 hours, from which at least 1/4 is idle time.

I can easily spend an hour browsing web and clearing AFK from my toons every now and then...